“We have ballplayers who in three or four years will be playing in The Bronx.” JOSH GETZLER, CO-OWNER OF STATEN ISLAND YANKEES

Baseball fans can go to the ballpark and watch the Yankees play for $6 – the Staten Island Yankees, that is.

The first home game for the first Yankee minor-league team ever to play in the Big Apple takes place Sunday on Father’s Day – and it’s sold out.

The opening-day crowd – with some big shots in attendance – will see the Yankees play the Hudson Valley Renegades at 6 p.m. at the College of Staten Island.

Mayor Giuliani will throw out the ceremonial first pitch, and Hall of Famers Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto also will be on hand.

The team plans a post-game fireworks display.

The Yankees of the Class-A New York Penn League – formerly the Oneonta Yankees – will play 38 of their 76 games this year at a temporary 4,500-seat stadium at the College of Staten Island in Willowbrook.

It will serve as their home field until a new stadium is built next to the Staten Island Ferry’s St. George Terminal in 2001.

Locals are enthusiastic about the eager young pinstripers – most of them just out of high school or college and getting their first taste of pro ball.

“It’s all the people are talking about,” said Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari.

Josh Getzler, the team’s co-owner and chief financial officer, predicted: “We have ballplayers who in three or four years will be playing in The Bronx.”

Among the team’s standouts is catcher Chad Sutter, son of former Cy Young Award-winning relief pitcher Bruce Sutter.

Young Sutter shattered the home-run record at Tulane University.

“I’m excited. I’ve never been to New York City. I’m ready to get up there and help the Staten Island team win some games,” said Sutter, 21, who was practicing in Tampa last week.

Being close to Yankee Stadium will provide a big incentive to play well, he added.

Sutter will be joined by two promising hurlers – righty David Walling of the University of Arkansas and lefty Alex Graman of Indiana State.

The new team promises a day at the ballpark will be fun-filled.

Between innings, there will be contests and games. Fans will be picked at random from the stands to go on the field to try their hand at pitching.

Fans also will be invited to race the team mascot.

All for $6 for a seat in the bleachers and $10 for a box seat.

The team opens the season tomorrow on the road against the Oneonta Tigers.

Players went through orientation and practice at the New York Yankees’ Tampa facility last week.

And crews are sprucing the stadium and field with new sod, dugouts, bleachers, bullpens and sound system and lighting.

The city kicked in $3.5 million for the renovations.

The Baby Bombers may not be the only minor-league team in town for long. A Mets farm team is expected to start playing in Brooklyn next year.

Molinari said he would like nothing more than an interborough rivalry against a Brooklyn team.